Hyacinth Stakes

Note: Date, Track and Qualifying Points are based on the Road to the 2020 Kentucky Derby schedule.

When: February 23, 2020

Where:  Tokyo Racecourse (Tokyo, Japan)

Purse: $300,000

Race Distance: 1 mile

History:  The Hyacinth Stakes has been going since 2003 and is one of two races to have been contested in every official Japanese Road to the Kentucky Derby (the other being the Cattleya Sho).

It is currently the penultimate race and winners get 30 points, which is more than the victors of the Cattleya Sho and Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun but less than the first-place finisher at the Fukuryu Stakes.

Raced over a mile at Tokyo Racecourse, it is seen by many as the most important early season race for three-year-olds. .

Qualifying Points:  30-12-6-3

Past Winners:

2020 - Cafe Pharoah
2019 - Oval Ace
2018 - Sumahama
2017 - Epicharis
2016 - Gold Dream
2015 - Golden Barows
2014 - Ekimae
2013 - Charlie Brave
2012 - Fleet Street
2011 - La Vie en Claire
2010 - Birdie Birdie
2009 - Kanetoshi Kosho
2008 - Success Brocken
2007 - Ferrari Pisa
2006 - Flamme de Passion
2005 - Don Cool
2004 - Café Olympus
2003 - Big Wolf